- From: Ed Davies <edavies@nildram.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:23:14 +0100
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
John Cowan wrote: > ... > The connection between an information resource and its representation(s) > is fairly close and straightforward. The representation you get of > Italy when you do a GET on an URL for Italy will have a rather more > abstract connection to Italy. The use of the words "of Italy" here are not quite right, I think. You don't get a representation of Italy, you get (after 303 indirection to flag what's going on) a representation of an information resource. The best you can hope for is that the information resource says something interesting about Italy. The use of the work "representation" in this context is a bit specialized. In everyday language people might say that a map of Italy is a representation of that country whereas, in the context of TAG discussions, I think that specific SVG or PNG files (or pieces of paper) are regarded as representations of the map. Italy is only the topic of the map, not the thing represented by the files. Ed Davies.
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